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“We were playing”: videotape of bin Laden’s dinner with Sheikh Ali Saeed al-Ghamdi.

banned all talk of dreams: Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks, 117.

America in ashes: Peter Finn, “Hamburg’s Cauldron of Terror,” Washington Post, September 11, 2002.

357 nine thousand gallons: Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, 50.

O’Neill helped usher: Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 366.

“Wait, wait”: interview with Ali Soufan.

358 held up three fingers: Mike Boettcher, “Detainees Reveal bin Laden’s Reaction to Attacks,” CNN.com, September 10, 2002.

359 north tower: Details of the scene inside come from interviews with Kurt Kjeldsen and Michael Hingson; the video footage shot by Jules and Gedeon Naudet; Murphy, September 11; Fink and Mathias, Never Forget; and Smith, Report from Ground Zero.

“Is it true”: interview with Wesley Wong.

360 dust was a compound: Anthony DePalma, “What Happened to That Cloud of Dust?” New York Times, November 2, 2005.

20. Revelations

363 Quso and Abu Jandal interrogations: interviews with Ali Soufan and Robert McFadden.

368 special protocol: Weiss, The Man Who Warned America, 383.

370 “We planned”: John R. Bradley, “Definitive Translation of ‘Smoking Gun’ Tape.” www.johnrbradley.com/art_27.htm, July 15, 2004. translated by Ali al-Ahmed.

“I never knew”: interview with Maha Elsamneh.

371 Tora Bora: Smucker, Al-Qaeda’s Great Escape, 119-20.

“We were about”: bin Laden audiotape: “Message to Our Muslim Brothers in Iraq,” BBCNews.com, February 12, 2003.

“Only a few”: “Al-Majellah Obtains bin Ladin’s Will,” Al-Majellah, October 27, 1992. Translated by FBIS.

372 “I saw a heavy”: Ilene R. Prusher, “Two Top al-Qaeda Leaders Spotted,” Christian Science Monitor, March 26, 2002.

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